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Why is Hecarim so underplayed and underestimated?

I started jungling him in my last few games,he has great clearance and sustain,his ganks are above average do to his movement speed boost and a knockback.
On top of that his ult is great for initiating a teamfight.
Why is he so underplayed?

He dies easier than average in teamfights, unless you get a perfect W in, with support from your teammates.

His passive gives lower AD if you're slowed, which also lowers the damage on your Q and E.

His ulti has a long enough cooldown, and is easier to avoid than Malphite's R or Alistar's combo.

His knockback is about the crappiest there is in the game, the only reason why it works is the MS boost, and you stun yourself for a split-second when knocking back someone. It is melee range, and knocks back over a short distance.

He was massively underpowered on release, and release state leads to general opinions like "he's weak".

His Q is ridiculously weak unless you max it first, and even then it takes some levels to become significant. They buffed its damage on minions because of that.

His E makes it very clear that you're gonna jump at someone, giving them time to prepare their escape

He has hybrid ratios, making builds less intuitive. And many people don't like to figure out builds apparently. Also that makes LW and VS less useful.

All his hard CC's (2) are on a high cooldown. he has no other types of CC.

The main reason I won't play him is because I never see a Hec that makes me think "wow that's an awesome champ!" or "wow he deals so much damage!". He just looks average to me in all areas (except maybe looks) which isn't enough for me to want him.

Add to that that he is a 6300 champ and that just means I'm not interested at all. If he would be 3150 or less I might pick him up, but he isn't.

You are doing something wrong then.
You should be 0-0-8 and your AD should be 5-0-0 (or whereever u gank)

hes not exactly doing something wrong...

Rule of thumb: the one getting the kills should contribute more to carrying the game.

if i feel like carrying the game more then my adcarry for some reason, i take the kills.
Hecarim is very snowbally, if you get a few early kills, its gg, because you can towerdive everything then and snowball all lanes, not just one(bot in this case).